Bernard Herrmann !! I have an LP with this -- "On Dangerous Ground" -- the "Death Hunt" scene --- ***EIGHT*** horns!!

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The camera work is a little odd -- too many closeups, never a wide shot of all the horns at once. Looks like (at least) five in the front row, four in the back. Liner notes from the LP say it was scored for eight horn *parts*, so maybe some doubling on some stands. This can't possibly have anything to do with the fact that conductor Salonen began as a horn player.

I kind of hate linking to YouTube because it's turned into such a stinking shitpile of surplus "features" that it bogs down any browser you can throw at it. But once you get it loaded, crank up the volume and let your hair stand on end !

Herrmann was an expert at using music to trigger emotions. It's hard to imagine hearing this in a dark theater while, on the screen, an alleged murderer is run to ground at night in a remote landscape -- and falls to his death.

Here's a movie music fan discussion of the movie itself. I've never actually seen it -- it wasn't a big commercial success, and I don't know that I've ever seen it on any TV channel.

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1. That was exciting! Thanks for sharing it